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LONDON — Akin Ipek, one of Turkey’srichest men, was staying in the Park TowerHotel in London when the police raided histelevision network in Istanbul. The raidwas national news, so Mr. Ipek opened hislaptop and watched an unnerving specta-cle: an attack on his multibillion-dollar em-pire, in real time.

It was an oddly cinematic showdown.Through a combination of shouting andpersuasion, the network’s news editor con-vinced the officers that they should leave,then locked himself in the basement con-trol room with a film crew. For the next sev-en and a half hours, until the police re-turned, the news editor spoke into a cam-era and took calls on his iPhone. One wasfrom Mr. Ipek, who denounced the govern-ment’s action as illegal.

“I was shocked and angry,” Mr. Ipek saidin a recent interview in London. “But Ithought they would leave after a coupledays. There was no reason to stay.”

Actually, the government never left, andthe events were the start of a personal cat-aclysm for Mr. Ipek. His station, Bugun TV,was taken off the air a few hours after that

phone call, on Oct. 28, 2015. His entire con-glomerate of 22 companies, Koza Ipek, isnow owned and operated by the state.

The episode proved to be a dry run for anationwide series of confiscations that be-gan soon after a failed attempt to over-throw the government of President RecepTayyip Erdogan on July 15 last year. Since

then, more than 950 companies have beenexpropriated, all of them purportedlylinked to Fethullah Gulen, the Muslimcleric who Turkish leaders say master-minded the putsch.

About $11 billion worth of corporate as-sets — from small baklava chains to large

Turkey Wages War on ‘Enemies’ in Business

Turkey expropriated the companies of Akin Ipek, now an exile in London.ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Over 950 Companies Seized in Fallout of Coup Attempt

By DAVID SEGAL

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MINNEAPOLIS — There wassomething bad going on in the al-leyway behind the house, she toldher fiancé on the phone, someonewho sounded as if she was in dis-tress, maybe a rape. It was past 11p.m., and most people on Wash-burn Avenue were furled in theirbeds.

Except Justine Damond, aloneat home with the noises, her anxi-ety creeping into the loud Las Ve-gas casino where her fiancé hadanswered the phone.

They had met five years ago,when they lived 9,000 miles apart,beginning a courtship at first halt-ing and then headlong. Now thewedding dress was ordered, thesuit bought, the invitations sent,the ceremony set for an Augustweekend in Hawaii. But last Sat-urday night, they were separatedagain.

Her fiancé, Don Damond, toldher to call 911. They stayed on the

phone until she said the police hadarrived. Stay put, he told her. Callme back, he told her.

“I have played this over in myhead over and over,” Mr. Damondsaid on Friday in his first inter-view since that night. “Why didn’tI stay on the phone with her?”

The events of the next few min-

utes will be anatomized and ar-gued over and, maybe, at somepoint, contested in court. But thismuch is established: As the squadcar she had summoned slid downthe alley, Justine Damond went upto the police officers inside, one ofwhom, for reasons still unknown,

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ian Yee and Matt Furber.

Valerie Castile embracing Don Damond. The police fatally shother son, Philando Castile, and Mr. Damond’s fiancée, Justine.

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Grue-some billboards of a woman in abloodied and torn bridal gown ap-peared around Beirut recently,captioned in Arabic: “A whitedress doesn’t cover up rape.” Thisspring, a women’s rights group,Abaad, hung similarly defiledgowns along the city’s famousseaside promenade.

Such provocative public aware-ness campaigns are part of a newpush in Lebanon and across theMiddle East to repeal longstand-ing laws that allow rapists to avoidcriminal prosecution if theymarry their victims. The lawswere built around patriarchal atti-tudes that link a family’s honor di-rectly to a woman’s chastity; themarriage option is aimed atshielding the victim’s family from“the scandal,” as one victim’sbrother put it in an interview.

In 2014, Morocco repealed a pro-vision that allowed convicted rap-ists to evade punishment by mar-rying their victims. Parliamenta-ry votes are expected as early asthis summer here in Lebanon andin Jordan after government com-mittees in both places recom-mended repealing similar exemp-tions for both the accused and theconvicted.

Any change would come too latefor Basma Mohamad Latifa,whose family said she was rapedthree years ago in a village insouthern Lebanon by a man morethan twice her age. Her family didnot go to the police, making a dealnot to file charges in exchange fora wedding.

In June, just after the middle-of-the-night Ramadan meal, the man

End Marry-Your-Rapist Laws, Activists Say. Mideast Listens.

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

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WASHINGTON — As a candi-date, President Trump billed him-self as a new breed of think-big Re-publican, pitching a $1 trillioncampaign pledge to reconstructthe nation’s roadways, water-works and bridges — along with apromise to revive the lost art ofthe bipartisan deal.

In the White House, Mr. Trumphas continued to dangle the possi-bility of “a great national infra-structure program” that wouldcreate “millions” of new jobs aspart of a public-private partner-ship to rival the public worksachievements of Franklin DelanoRoosevelt and Dwight D. Eisen-hower. He chastises anyone whoforgets to include it near the top ofhis to-do list, telling one recentvisitor to the Oval Office, “Don’tforget about infrastructure!”

But an ambitious public worksplan, arguably his best chance ofrising above the partisan rancorof his first six months in office, isfast becoming an afterthought —at precisely the moment Mr.Trump needs a big, unifying issueto rewrite the narrative of his cha-otic administration.

Infrastructure remains stucknear the rear of the legislativeline, according to two dozen ad-ministration officials, legislatorsand labor leaders involved in com-ing up with a concrete proposal. Itawaits the resolution of tough ne-gotiations over the budget, thedebt ceiling, a tax overhaul, a newpush to toughen immigration laws— and the enervating slog to enacta replacement for the AffordableCare Act.

Mr. Trump’s team has yet toproduce the detailed plan he haspromised to deliver “very soon,”and the president has yet to even

Infrastructure,Trump Priority,Is Pushed Aside

Accord on Need to Act,but Not on the Path

By GLENN THRUSH

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When she was health commis-sioner of Georgia, the state withone of the highest rates of childobesity, Dr. Brenda Fitzgeraldfaced two enormous challenges:How to get children to slim downand how to pay for it.

Her answer to the first wasPower Up for 30, a program push-ing schools to give children 30minutes more exercise each day,part of a statewide initiative calledGeorgia Shape. The answer to thesecond was Coca-Cola, the softdrink company and philanthropic

powerhouse,which has paidfor almost theentire PowerUp program.

Dr. Fitzger-ald is now in thespotlight as theTrump admin-istration’snewly ap-pointed direc-

tor of the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention, making herone of the nation’s top publichealth officials. And she finds her-self facing a backlash from publichealth advocates for having ac-cepted $1 million to fight childobesity from a company expertssay is a major cause of it.

Her new position puts her at thehelm of a federal agency thatshook off its ties to the soda giant,in 2013, after concluding Coke’smission was at odds with its own.But Dr. Fitzgerald suggested in an

Chief of C.D.C.Saw Coca-ColaAs Fitness Ally

By SHEILA KAPLAN

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WASHINGTON — Congres-sional leaders have reached anagreement on sweeping sanctionslegislation to punish Russia for itselection meddling and aggressiontoward its neighbors, they saidSaturday, defying the WhiteHouse’s argument that PresidentTrump needs flexibility to adjustthe sanctions to fit his diplomaticinitiatives with Moscow.

The new legislation wouldsharply limit the president’s abil-ity to suspend or terminate thesanctions — a remarkable hand-cuffing by a Republican-led Con-gress six months into Mr. Trump’stenure. It is also the latest Russia-tinged turn for a presidency con-sumed by investigations into theTrump campaign’s interactionswith Russian officials, includingconversations between Trump ad-visers and Russian officials aboutprospective sanctions relief.

Now, Mr. Trump could soon facea decision he hoped to avoid: vetothe bill — a move that would fuelaccusations that he is doing thebidding of President Vladimir V.Putin of Russia — or sign legisla-tion imposing sanctions his ad-ministration has opposed.

“A nearly united Congress ispoised to send President Putin aclear message on behalf of theAmerican people and our allies,”said Senator Benjamin L. Cardinof Maryland, the top Democrat onthe Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee, “and we need Presi-dent Trump to help us deliver thatmessage.”

The bill aims to punish Russianot only for interference in theelection but also for its annexationof Crimea, continuing military ac-tivity in eastern Ukraine and hu-man rights abuses. Proponents ofthe measure seek to impose sanc-tions on people involved in humanrights abuses, suppliers of weap-ons to the government of Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad in Syria andthose undermining cybersecurity,among others.

The agreement highlighted thegap between what Mr. Trump seesas the proper approach to a re-surgent Russia and how lawmak-ers — even Republicans whobroadly support Mr. Trump —want to proceed. While Mr. Trump

AS CONGRESS AIMSTO PUNISH RUSSIA,TRUMP FACES BIND

LAWMAKERS REACH DEAL

Leaders in G.O.P. RejectWhite House’s Desire

for Flexibility

By MATT FLEGENHEIMERand DAVID E. SANGER

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